\name{propensity}
\alias{propensity}
\docType{data}
\title{
Distribution of crimes against persons at different ages
}
\description{
This dataset comes from Plate IV, "Influence de l'age" of Guerry(1833), transcribed in Whitt & Reinking's (2002) translation as Table 9A, pp. 38-43.
It gives the rank ordering of crimes against persons in seven age groups, in long form.

}
\usage{data("propensity")}
\format{
  A data frame with 124 observations on the following 4 variables.
  \describe{
    \item{\code{age}}{a character vector, with 7 age groups, \code{<21}, \code{21-30}, \code{30-40} ... \code{60-70}, \code{70-}}
    \item{\code{rank}}{a numeric vector, rank of the crime within each age group}
    \item{\code{crime}}{a character vector, label of the crime}
    \item{\code{share}}{a numeric vector, share (frequency) of the crime in a population of 1000}
  }
}
\details{
For each age group (both males and females), the 17 most frequent crimes are listed in rank order, followed by an 'Other crime'
category.
}
\source{
H. P. Whitt and V. W. Reinking (2002). A Translation of Andr\'e-Michel Guerry's \emph{Essay on the Moral Statistics of France}, Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2002.
}
\references{
Guerry, A.-M. (1833). \emph{Essai sur la statistique morale de la France} Paris: Crochard.
}
\examples{
data(propensity)
## maybe str(propensity) ; plot(propensity) ...
}
\keyword{datasets}
